Getting ready for summer

It's been a while since we blogged... Looking back the last few months I see that we have made a lot of changes!

No more high fructose corn syrup!
From the start we knew that HFCS is no good but we were just unable to buy good ketchup in bulk from our suppliers.  So now we make our own!  Yes, it cost us more and it takes work making it but it is just the right thing to do not to serve our guests HFCS when we can provide a healthier alternative.  We have beta tested our own brand of BUNS ketchup and you liked it!  Who knows?  Maybe we will make more and sell them in bottles?  Watch out Heinz!

Sorry diet drinks and can sodas...
Along that same line, we have improved on our beverage lineup to only natural products: Lightly carbonated orange and lemon sodas from San Pellegrino; Juice Squeeze; Dry Sodas, and Mexican Cokes because it is made from real cane sugar!

Beecher's we love you

Taking in our guests' feedback, we now feature Beecher's Flagship cheese on all of our cheeseburgers.  There is simply nothing better.

The Hottie is OUT!

Hottie and BUNS are two words that belong together (but you probably don’t want to google them as such ;)  We beta-tested our spicy burger and it got rave reviews.  So it is an official menu item: our delicious grass-fed patty topped with pepper jack cheese, garnished with fire-roasted green chili, lettuce, tomato, onion and dressed with our homemade chipotle mayo.  After all, who can resist a hottie?

Summer locations

Well so it is now June (and it actually stopped snowing last night).  BUNS, along with a number of our food truck colleagues, will be vending from 2^nd and Pine in downtown Seattle (http://2ndAndPine.com ), we will be at the Queen Anne Farmer’s Market on Thursday afternoons, and on Capitol Hill Saturday late nights (http://CapHillNightMarket.com ).

SUNSET liked us!!

Check out the June issue of Sunset Magazine.  BUNS is one of 3 (and the only food truck) picked by Sunset's editors as “Seattle’s Burger Kings”!  We are jazzed and honored.  Thank you Sunset!

Online ordering is here!

One of the challenges we face doing gourmet burgers is the wait time for the patty to cook.  Unlike something that you just scoop and serve, we cook our food to order and it does take about 10 to 12 minutes to cook a raw patty to medium well.  That is a long time to wait when people relate food trucks to fast foods and are used to the McDonalds way.  And it SEEMS even longer when it is cold and miserable outdoor.

So we have been working on an online order solution since we started and it is finally up and running!  Now you can be sitting at your desk, or in your car, place the order, and do a quick dash to pick up your food all ready for you.

The order page can be accessed through our web site or a simple URL to remember: OrderBuns.com

Give that a try next time we are in your neighborhood!

Winter calendar

We had a mild Fall but Winter is finally here.  We are now on our Winter calendar with a reduced operating schedule.  Reasons?

1. Despite of the heat lamp we carry around, you are cold and we are cold.  The patronage, understandably drops and we simply do not sell enough burgers to justify operations when it is cold and miserable.
2. We use this time to gear up for the spring and summer, test new recipes and try new things.
3. Hey, when else do we go skiing?

We will still be catering and doing special events.  And vending (as before) perhaps once a week just to keep the broiler hot.  So please come to the location and see us when your craving kicks in!